Jason Riggins discusses a real devops implementation.

1. REAL WORLD DEVOPS
“How we used a devops strategy to transform IT Operations”

2. Hi, I’m Jason
DevOps & IT Operations Leader
• RHCE
• 17Years Experience
• @TransformingOps
• jason.riggins@gmail.com

3. WHO IS COX AUTOMOTIVE?

4. WHO IS MANHEIM?

5. –Gordon B. Hinckley
“You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation
You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to
have a strong superstructure.”
–Mattie Stepanek
“When there is teamwork and collaboration,
wonderful things can be achieved.”

6. TOPICS
1
2
4
5
Our Mission
Challenges We Faced
Major considerations
Big Moves to the Cloud
3 How we responded

7. Migrate to Cloud
Promote Consistency
Reduce Downtime
Eliminate Manual Deployments
WHAT DID WE WANTTO ACHIEVE?

8. MULTI-YEAR CLOUD JOURNEY
2012
2017
2020 75%
0%
30%

9. DEV OPS
We were NOT aligned for success!

10. LET’S DO DEVOPS!

11. https://aws.amazon.com/devops/what-is-devops/
“DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies,
practices, and tools that increase an organization’s
ability to deliver applications and services at high
velocity”

12. WHY DEVOPS?
• Encourage collaboration
• Emerging competition
• More business transactions
online vs in person
• Accelerate cloud adoption

13. WHAT WERETHE CHALLENGES?
Which tools should we use?
Jenkins? CircleCI? Build or buy?
How can we be successful when
it feels like we don’t have enough
engineers to service all software
teams?
Cloud costs seem to be
unmanageable? How do we
budget?

14. Release Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering
Site Operations
PRODUCTION
ENGINEERING

15. RELEASE ENGINEERING
• Cost management
• Automation tools
• Enable pattern based
deployments
• Advisory/Enablement
services
• Cloud community of
practice

16. SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
• Keep developers focused
on development
• Encourage operational best
practices
• Anchor off Release
Engineering
• Eliminate manual
deployments

17. SITE OPERATIONS
• Mile wide, inch deep
• Tip of spear for overall
health
• Close connection with SRE
• Involved in most production
incidents

18. DON’T
DEVELOP
FOCUS
LISTEN
Reinvent the wheel
Team charter
On people
To feedback!
MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS

19. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• AWS spend remains within +/- 5% of forecast
• Deployments are 80% automated
• Team grew from 3 engineers to 40+ engineers
• Approximately 100 production apps in AWS
• MTTR is down across the board

20. Born in the Cloud
Replatform

21. Lift and Shift
Replatform

22. INTERESTING MEDIA LINKS
Pagerduty - https://www.pagerduty.com/customer/manheim/
Newrelic - https://blog.newrelic.com/2017/04/03/manheim-
online-used-car-auctions/
CircleCi - http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/circleci-
enterprise-offers-flexibility-security-scalability-with-any-cloud-
deployment-2103792.htm
Datadog - http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/circleci-
enterprise-offers-flexibility-security-scalability-with-any-cloud-
deployment-2103792.htm

23. QUESTIONS?

24. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME!